[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

When i was on benefits i had mine cut for a week for missing an appointment. Granted that was my fault. I messed up the dates.

Vanessa,it is easy to get dates mixed up, they will pounce in an instant as to that but I come across people who have been told to attend an interview at the jobcentre,when they have got there then being told no appointment is recorded for them that day and told to go home.

Also I know someone who was sanctioned for not going to a job interview the jobcentre had arranged for them at 11.30am on a particular day.
A day they had an interview themselves at 10am and another at 1.30pm some distance apart.
They told the jobcentre this but they said they must go to that interview too.

The first interview took until after 11 am, no way could they get to the 11.30am jobcentre arranged one.
They were then told they would be being sanctioned for not going to it.

As it turned out, they got the 1.30pm job they went for and were able to tell the jobcentre where to go.
It doesn't always end up with that good result however and as you point out, people can get sanctioned ridiculously.